章 649: Choice (2)

"That's easy. You can become so powerful that your opponent would have to pay a great price for doing away with you. This way, it won't even matter even if they know that it's you. They can't pay the price of dealing with you," Mi Guangying said this casually.

"There's another way. Find a powerful backer for yourself. Your opponent will certainly refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases[1. A Chinese proverb, it means that dealing with a problem is too costly.]."

"Can I ask you something? Do you know how many Iron Flag Council Members there are in the stellar zone I'm currently in?" Lu Sheng seemed to have asked an unimportant question.